In pardoning his son, the president has ensured that the distance between himself and Trump is now shrouded in fog.

President Joe Biden just made history — the bad kind — with Sunday night’s sweeping Thanksgiving-weekend pardon of his own son, Hunter Biden. (Talk about trying to bury a story.) The outgoing president made this all way harder than it needed to be on himself, his son, and the justice system.

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Hunter Biden's connection to dad Joe Biden is well-documented, including the president's decision to grant his son a "full and unconditional pardon" Dec. 1. But he's just one piece of the Biden brood.

What the president said: "Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter," Biden said in a statement on Sunday. "From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."

Minnesota birds Peach and Blossom receive the ritualistic waiver as Thanksgiving approaches. “They tell me there’s 2,500 people here today, looking for a pardon!”

Independent West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a former Democrat, has said that President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter would have been “more balanced” had he also pardoned President-elect Donald Trump.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has slammed US Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter, who was found guilty of violating US federal tax and gun laws.